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This Blog will teach you how to create a garden that is both beautiful and beneficial to wildlife. You will learn about the importance of variety, how to provide food and shelter for wildlife, and how to avoid using pesticides. With these tips, you can create a garden that will be a haven for wildlife for years to come.
Pruning Apple and Pear Trees The Best Position for an Apple or Pear Trees Fruit trees prefer a sunny, sheltered site, which is essential for a consistently good crop....
Euonymus are great plants to have in your garden....
Gardening for beginners: Plant types explained There are many different types of plants, each with its own unique needs....
A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years....
All you need to know about growing Aucuba japonica (spotted laurel) Aucuba japonica, commonly known as spotted laurel, is a tough, hardy, and easy-to-grow evergreen shrub....
Plant: March - May & September - November Harvest: All year, but taste best when its sunny I have planted thyme all over my garden, using it to cover exposed soil, line pathways, and even replace grass....
Autumn is the best time to sow wildflower seeds in Great Britain for several reasons: It's natural....
All you need to know about growing beautiful foxgloves....
Our climate is changing giving us prolonged periods of hot dry weather....
All you need to know about growing Achillea....
In their native countries Fuchsias are adored by hummingbirds....
After much research, I discovered that hellebores were a good solution to the two problems I was trying to solve: providing early emerging bees with food and growing a plant in a dry shady area....
An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies....
Fig trees are a big magnet for birds, as the large leaves give them somewhere to hide....
Wallflowers are nectar rich and attract bumble bees, honey bees as well as many other pollinators....
Erigerons are loved by bees, butterflies and other pollinators Why I think Erigeron is great for wildlife: It is a ground covering plant helping to keep soil in place Bugs can hide underneath it Birds will eat those bugs Bees and butterflies enjoy the nectar I've always admired the erigeron my mother grows in her garden....
How to plant, grow and care for cranesbill geraniums Loved by bees and hoverflies and I've often seen Butterflies on them too....
How To Grow, Prune and Propagate Penstemons Loved by Bees, and the hummingbird hawk moths that visit our garden....
For seeds to grow they need to germinate, which requires: Water This is important to swell the seed to start the chemical process to get the seed to germinate and grow....
Sunflowers must be one of the easiest flowers to grow....
All you need to know about growing alliums, or ornamental onions....
Cultivated flowers and wildflower seeds can be collected by hand....
Hebes are a popular evergreen shrub that can flower for most of the year, making them a wonderful addition to any garden....
A lot of us are becoming aware that pollinating insects need a bit of help, from providing hedging to slow down strong winds so insects can continue to fly around, through to giving them a larger variety of food in the form of fruiting trees, bushes, cultivated as well as wild flowers....
Wild flowers make a great addition to any type of garden....
Unlike most types of gardening where you change the soil or the garden to match the plant you want to grow, with Wild Flowers you need to judge the existing soil type and conditions and plant a mixture best suited to that situation....
If you haven't had much success with wildflower seeds, then making seed balls could be the solution for you....
When looked after a Buddleia bush can look stunning and brighten any garden through the hot summer months....
Wildflower patches in gardens, or if you are lucky enough to have an entire meadow but don't have access to agricultural machinery, can't be cut in the same way you would cut a lawn....
Here's what you need to know before you consider taking on the task of creating a wildflower meadow or wildflower patch in your garden....
The cottage garden is a distinct style that uses informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, haphazard self-seeding and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants....
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